Roll film camera



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W. BAUMGARTNER ROLL FILM CAMERA Original Filed July 8, 1938 Patented 22, 194i WilhelmBaumgirtner, Brunswick. Germany: vestedinthefilienl'ropertycnstodian Original application July 8, 1938, Serial No. 218,175, now Patent No. 2,233,238, dated Fem- "ary25, 1941. Divided and this application De No. 369,201. In Germany e'ember 9. 19 561111 an invention relates to improvement in roll film cameras, and the object of the improvements is to providemeans-for locking the film feeding in connection with means operative while-the film backing paper is being fed forreleasing the said locking-means. This application is a division.

from an appl cation for roll film cameras filed by me July 8, 1938, upon which-on February 25,-1941,

Letters Patent No. 2,233,238 were granted.

For the purpose of explaining thelinvention mechanism after a length of film has been .fed,

the film controlling gearing, and within the said casing a plate 9 is secured to the end wall III of the body. To the flanges II upper and lower masks II and I2 are-hinged by] means of which the size of the exposure opening may be reduced.

as is shown in Fig. 8. Within the upper chamber 6 am winding spool." and within the lower chamber 1 a film delivering spool I4 is mounted. The film winding spool I3 isprovided with the usual key 18, and the film delivering spool has a ratchet-wheel l5 secured to its shaft, the said several examples embodying the same have been 3 shown in the accompanying drawings; i which the samereference characters have been used in all the views to indicate corresponding parts.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the camera with the casing enclosing the controlling-mechanism removed, I I

Fig. 2 is ajsectional elevation taken on the line 2- z' of Fig. 1, I

Fig. 3 "s a sectional 3-3 of Fig. 2, v

ratchet-wheel being located outside the sidewall Ill of the body I and within the casing 8. Within the lower chamber! a film guide rod l9, and within theupper chamber 6 a friction roller are mounted, the said friction roller being formed .elevationtaken on the line Fig. 4 is an elevation on an enlarged scale showing the trains of gear wheels illustrated in Fig. 1-, .the member controlling the said trains of gear wheels being shown in'a different position,

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4,

Fig. 6 is a sectional plan 'view takenon the line 6-4 of Fig. 4, g

Fig.7 s a sectional plan view taken on the line |IofFig.4,@ 1

Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation similar to the one illustrated in. Fig. 3. and showing the masks contending the exposure opening in a difierent posl t on, g e V Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation taken on the line I a 9-4 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 10 is an elevation on an enlarged scale and similar to the one illu'stratedin Fig. 4 and showing a modification,

Fig. 11 is asideelevation of Fig. 10; and

Figs. 12, 13 and ii are elevations showing a in Figs. -1 to 9,10 mu. V

In the examplefshown in Figs. 1 to 9 the camera detail used'in either one of the. cameras shown comprisesa body I having. and 2'hinged to its rear side at and formed with aninwardly pressed patient-forming an exposure chamber 5 and film spool chambers C and I, the portion 4 being formed with a flange tlprovidng'an exposure opening 18. The bellows and otherl'parts have not been shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 9, At one side near its ends with teeth 2| frictionally engaging the mm 22 trained thereon, springs 25 being provided for pressing the film into engagement with the said teeth. To the outer end of the shaft 2| of the friction roller 20 a gear wheel23 is secured which forms a partof the film controlling mechanism. The shaft 24 is passed through and guided in the said plate 9.

0n the said plate 9 the film controlling mechanism is mounted, which comprises, in addition to the gear wheel 23, a film measuring disk 28 connected with a coaxial gear wheel 29 and formed with a notch 30, a lever 3| formed at its top end with a nose l2 cooperating with the said notch and at its bottom end with a nose 33 cooperating with the ratchet wheel li, a spring ll tending to hold the nose 32 in engagement with the disk 28 and to throw the nose 33 into locking engagement' with the ratchet wheel l5. Normally the said lever 3| is in-the position shown in Fig. 1 in which it engages. with its nose 32 the unnotched portion of the periphery of the disk 28, while its nose 32 is out ofgengagement with the ratchet disk i5. But when the now 32 is in line with the notch 30 the spring 34 turns the lever 3| with its nose 33 into locking engagement with the ratchet disk It, for interrupting the film feeding operation by means of the key I8, as will be described hereafter. The disk 28 with its gear wheel 29 slightly projects at the margin through a slot made inthe side wall-of the casing 8, so that it may be turned by the finger of the photographer.

The gear wheel 23 is adapted to be connected with the film measuring disk 2|! and its gear wheel 29 through either one of two' trains of gear wheels of. difierent gear ratios one corresponding to films of small size say 6 by 6 centimeters and the other e I one to films of large size say 6 by 9 centimeters. a casing I is fixed to the body I, which encloses 66- The first train of gear wheels comprises a gear wheel 51 which is rotatably mounted on a pivot bolt 25 secured to the plate 9 and meshing with the gear wheel 25, a gear wheel 35 loosely mounted on the said pivot bolt 35 and adapted to be connected with the gear wheel 31 by coupling teeth 55, a gear wheel loosely mounted on a pivot bolt 52 and meshing with the gear wheel 59, a gear wheel 53 loosely mounted on the said pivot bolt 52 and formed with a segmental slot 55 engaged by a pin 55 secured to the gear wheel 5|, and a gear wheel 55 loosely mounted on a pivot bolt 55 and meshing with the gear wheels 53 and 29. Between the gear wheels 31 and 39 a coiled spring 51 is located which tends to hold the said gear wheels out of locking engagement with each other.

The second train of gear wheels comprises a gear wheel 55 loosely mounted on a pivot bolt 5| fixed to the plate 9, a gear wheel 52 loosely mounted on the said pivot bolt 5| and adapted to be coupled with the gear wheel 55 by means of teeth 53, and a gear wheel 55 loosely mounted on a tubular pivot bolt 55 and meshing with the said gear wheel 52 and the gear wheel 55.

Within the tubular pivot bolt 55 a shaft 55 is rotatably mounted which carries at its inner end a gear wheel 5| and at its outer end a milled disk 52. Within the casing 5 the said shaft has a controlling member in the form of a substantially triangular disk 53 fixed thereto, and the said disk carries segmental cam members 55 and 55 which are adapted to engage respectively the gear wheels 31 and 55 for shifting the same inwardly and with their teeth 55 and 53 in coupling engagement, Fig. 4 showing the controlling member 53 in the position in which the cam member 55 engages the gear wheel 31 so as to couple the same with the gear wheel 39, and Fig. 1 showing the controlling member 53 in the position in which its cam member 55 engages the gear wheel 55 and couples the same with the gear wheel 52. The gear wheels 31 and 55 so mounted and controlled constitute in their cooperation with gear wheels 39 and 52 make-andbreak devices in the two trains of gear wheels. Both make-and-break devices stand normally open and they are severally closed by the manual turning of disk 55 with its equipment of cam members 55 and 55.

On the tubular pivot bolt 55 a ratchet wheel 55 is loosely mounted which is fixed to the gear wheel 55, and which i adapted for engagement with a pawl 51 mounted on a pivot bolt 55 fixed to the controlling disk 53. The outer end of the tubular pivot bolt 55 is made integral with a cam disk 59 having a segmental portion of large diameter and a segmental portion of smaller diameter. The pawl 51 is acted upon by a leaf spring 15 tending to press the same into engagement with the segmental portion of larger diameter of the disk 59, and when the controlling member 53 is turned from the position shown in Fig. 4 and in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which the pawl 51 is opposite to the portion of smaller diameter of the cam disk, the said pawl engages in the teeth of the ratchet disk 55.

The gear wheel 5| is connected through a train of gear wheels 12 and 13 with a gear wheel 15 mounted on a pivot bolt 15 and formed with radial slots 15. The said slots are engaged by pins 11 fixed one to a link 15 guided with a slot 19 on a pin 55, and the other one to a slide 59. The said link 15 and slide 59 are formed with laterally projecting fingers 55 adapted o en arms 5| connected with the masks II and I2, and

when the disk 15 is turned in a direction for shifting the link 15 upwardly and the slide 55 downwardly the masks H and I2 are turned into the positions shown in Fig. 8 in which they cover the top and bottom parts of the exposure opening I5, so that small size images are produced on the film. When the disk 15 is turned in the opposite direction the link 15 and slide 55 release the masks II. whereupon the said masks are automatically turned by springs 52 into the horizontal positions shown in Fig. 3 in which the exposure opening is unobstructed and full size pictures are produced.

The lever 5| is adapted to be retracted from the disk 25 by mechanism connected with the shutter release mechanism. As shown, the downwardly directed arm of the lever is formed with a knee which is formed with a finger 95 projecting through a slot 91 in the plate 5 and the side wall of the body I into the said body. The base board I55 is hinged to the body I at 55, and near the said hinge a shaft 99 is pivotally mounted on the base board at I55. To the said shaft arms IN and I52 are fixed, and the arm III is held by a spring I55 in engagement with the said finger 95, while the arm I52 is in engagement with a slide 5 forming a part of the shutter releasing mechanism mounted on the base board I55. The said mechanism comprises a lever I51 extending longitudinally of the base board and pivotally mounted thereon at I55, the said lever engaging the shutter release lever I59. A pin I I5 secured to the rear or inner end of the said lever I51 has pin and slot connection with an arm II5 connected with the slide I I5. This slide is transversely slidable on the base board and it is provided with a finger piece 5 pro- Jecting through a slot II5 made in the base board. At its rear end the slide II5 is formed with an upwardly directed sheet metal finger I|1 which is inclined upwardly and laterally of the base board.

In the position of the parts shown in Figs. 1 and 9 in full lines in which the lever 3| is out of locking engagement with the ratchet disk IS, the arm I52 is in the path of the said finger H1, and therefore the slide II5 and the shutter re lease mechanism are locked. When, however, the lever 5| is thrown into locking engagement with the ratchet disk I5 the finger 96 turns the arms "I and I52 anticlockwise (Fig. 1), so that the arm I52 releases the finger H1 and the slide I I5, and the release mechanism may be operated. When the finger H1 is then moved to the left in Fig. 9 the arm I52 rides on the inclined face of the said finger upwardly, and thereafter it is again turned downwardly by the spring I55 to a position to the rear of the finger. When the slide II5 is released it is shifted to the right in Fig. 9, and the inclined bottom face of the finger II1 turns the arm I52 further downwardly. Therefore the arm I5| turns the lever 5| anticlockwise and retracts the same with its nose 52 out of the notch 55 and with its nose 33 out oi engagement with the ratchet disk I5. The nose 52 is retracted away from the disk 29 somewhat beyond the circumference thereof, and when the finger ||1 releases the lever M2 the lever 3| is turned by its spring 55 towards the disk 25 so far that the arm I 52 is slightly moved upwardly and into position for engaging the lower edge of the finger H1 and for locking the shutter release mechanism.

On the disk 25 a plate I25 is rockingly mounted which is adapted to cover the notch 35 for a,ase,seo I v 3 temporarily preventing the "from engagand 45 is closed by the coupling teeth Ill. Thus, ing the said notch. This plate and its function when the key ll is again operated for feeding the will be described hereafter with reference to Figs. film through a length corresponding to a small 12 and 18. f size exposure, e. g., 6 centimeters, the lever II The operation of the film feeding device is as I engages the notch 30 of the disk '28 and the follows: ratchet wheel ll after a length of film corre- The rear wall 1 of the body I is opened, a full sponding to asmallsize exposure has been fed. film spool i4 is placed into the chamber 1, the However, by the previous operation correspondfilm backing paper is passed on the guide rod ing to a full size exposure the corresponding ll, across the exposure opening II and on the full size section of the film hasbeen brought into friction roller and fixed .to the empty film exposure position, and therefore it is necessary winding spool It. The film controlling mechaby the first feeding movement of the film to imnism is first made inoperative by turning the 'part an additional feed to the filmso as to recontrolling member 68 by means of the milled move the said full size section of the film which disk I2 into an intermediate position in which .5 before has been exposedi'rom the exposure open-' its cam members it and 05 are out of engageing. and for this purpose the film must receive an ment with the gear wheels 31 and I. and the additional feed equal to one half of the difference said gear wheels are disconnected respectively tw th len t of th ,f s nd sm from the gear wheels I! and II. The film windsize film sections that is in the example of pic-- ing key I is turned for winding a part of the 20 tures'of 6 by 9 and 6 by 6 centimeters, 1% centifilm backing paper on the spool It, the camera meters. The transmis i B P s Such is closed, and the key is further turned until the i on l fe of t film b r n the P first section of the film is in position at the rear and slot connection ll, 44 be w n th of the exposure opening it, in which position the w e s and By re h 0f 'p and number lisvisible through the usual red window. Slot connection the r t movement imparted The disk 2| is set by hand into initial position to the gear wh 23 by the film is transmitted corresponding to the number I of the film. In at he be inning only to the p 4 whi h rav ls this position the nose :2 of lever ll engages the through the se mental sl t 8 to the end therenotchfl of the disk 20, and the nose 38 engages D n t f r her m vement is transthe ratchet wheel ll thus locking the film de- 3 itted'through the ge Wheels a livering spool. to the disk 28.

It may be assumed that at first a full size If the next exposure is to be made on a small exposure is to be made, the image having a size size section of the filmthe rotary movement imof say 6 by 9 centimeters. Therefore the conparted by the film to the gear wheel 21 is transtrolling member 3 is now brought into the posimitted to the disk I! from the beginning of the tlon show in Figs- 1 to 3 i w h it c uple film feeding movement, because the pin N is the gear wheels and 52. The shutter mechaalready at the leading end, of the slot 4! and nism is now releas d for t kin a photo raph. there is no lost motion.. Thus the film delivering because the lever ll is in the position in which spool I4 'is locked by the lever 3| at the end of its nose 32 engages the notch 30 .and the arm 4 the small size feed of the film. I02 has been turned upwe 'd y- After pe i If it is desired to change the camera from a of the shutter release mechanism the lever ll ll iz exposure t a full size exposure the is retracted from the notch 30 and the ratchet controlling member 53 1 again tamed t t disk I! end the fi deliverln! Sp are position for throwing the train of gear wheels releasedas has been described above- 28, ill, 52, 54, 45 into operation. Now the rear Now t is turned wmdmg the end of the previously exposed film section is in P5ed section of the mm on the mm wmdihg advance of the rear edge of the full size expoand setting the next mm mum into sure opening by one half of the difference of the position for exposure The mm along the lengths of the large and small size pictures, and

roller 20 by friction, and the rotary movement 1 1 f now the film were fed a length equal to the thus imparted to the friction roller is trans length of a full size picture there would be a mitted through the train of gear wheels 28 loss of film Therefore thd next film feed is re- 261 021 1: 1:121 1221:3 2 an? by i t: equal to one half of the that the lever ll engages the notch 30 and the Sm it t 8 lengths of the large and ratchet wheel I! when the next section of the 3 5 :32 g g fi gg fagg ggg gz ggg' g fiif g z gg shown in Fig. 4 in the direction of the arrow 1:. movement of the key is impossiblfl Thereby the pawl 81 leaves the portion of large or w mem r n on o ng Dos r coup 8 gear wheel 54 is turned in clockwise direction the gear wheels 50 and 52 the disk H has been set through the intermediary of the gear wheels and such movement is transmitted to e wheel 45 which imparts a certain lead to' the II, I! and 13 into the position shown in Fig. 3 m which the masks H and n are away from '5 notch 30 relatively tothe nose 32 of the lever the exposure opening ll. Thus the full size of Finally the p l 81 engages again the porexposure opening-1s open, and a mu size tion of large radius of the cam disk 89 and it picture 1 made on the m is thus retracted from the ratchet disk 66.

If it is desired to change from a full size ex- The movement 01 the gear wh el 45 posure toa picture of smaller size. the controlling is 1 i ed to the gear wheel I! which member 63 is tur ed from th sitio show in is thereby turned in the direction of the arrow 1 Figs. -1 to 3 into the position shown in Fig. 4 in 7 Thu the trailing end of the slot ll gets into which the train of gear wheels 2:, to, n, u, A! position f r en ment with the pin 44. and is interrupted between the gear wheels IO and ifthereafter the film r l ng mechanism is 52, and the train of gear wheels 2!, l1, 3!, ll, ll 15 again changed to small size exposure the gear wheels H, 43 have a certain lost motion, as has been explained above.

In Figs. 10 and 11 I have shown a modification in which in addition to the controlling mechanism described with reference to Figs. 1 to 8 a device is provided for holding the lever 3I in non-locking position relatively to the ratchet wheel I5 while the leading and tail ends of the fihn backing paper are being wound on the film winding spool I3. The said device consists of a cam disk 85 mounted coaxially of the disk 28 and having a segmental portion 88 of large diameter and a segmental portion 8'! of smaller diameter, thenose 32 of the lever 3I havin a breadth such as to engage not only the disk 28 but also the cam disk 85. The said cam disk 85 is connected with a gear wheel 88 which is connected through a train of gear wheels 88, 98, 8| and 82 with the gear wheel 23. Thus the rotary movement imparted by the film to the said gear wheel 23 is always transmitted to the disk 85, independently of the position of the controlling member 63.

The dimensions of the cam faces of the disk 85 are such that the portion a-b corresponds to the length of the leading end of the backing paper, the portion bc to the total length of the film and the length c-a to the length of the tail end of the backing paper.

When a new film is inserted the nose 32 engages the cam disk 85 at the point a, and therefore the lever 3| is held out of engagement with the ratchet wheel I 5 when the film winding spool is turned for winding the leading end of the film backin paper thereon and for pulling the first section of the film into exposure position. The nose 32 rides on the portion a-b and thereafter it gets into position radially of the said point b. Therefore, during the following film feeding operations the lever 3| is controlled by the disk 25, as has been described above. After the whole length of the film has passed the exposure opening the point 0 is in position for engagement with the nose 32, and thereafter, while the tail end of the film backing paper is being wound on the film winding spool the section ca of the disk 85 holds the lever 3I out of locking engagement with the ratchet wheel I5.

As far as the function of the disk 85 is concerned it is immaterial whether full size or small size photographs are being taken.

As has been described above, the nose 82 of the lever 3| gets into-engagement with the notch 38 when an unexposed film section is in exposure position, and when the shutter releasing mechanism is operated for making an exposure the nose 32 is retracted. When thereafter the said mechanism is released and the slide III returns into initial position the nose 32 would engage again in the notch 38, because the disk 28 has not been moved, and therefore it would be impossible to feed th exposure film. Therefore means must be provided for temporarily preventing the nose 32 from engaging in the notch, and for this purpose the aforesaid disk I28 in provided, which disk has been shown in diiferent positions in Figs. 12 to 14.

As is shown in Figs. 10 and 11 the said disk is located between the disk 28 and the cam disk 85, and it is formed with a bifurcated portion I2I straddling the pivot bolt 88a. Further, the disk is formed with a slot I22 engaging a pin I23 fixed to the disk 28. To one arm of the bifurcated portion I2I a spring I28 is attached which is connected with its opposite end to a pin I25 ther movement oi the disk secured to the disk 28. The slot I22 is disposed angularly of the circumference of the disk 28 in such a way that the disk I28 is-alightly moved inwardly and towards the pivot bolt 28 when it is turned anti-clockwise. The outer edge of the disk I28 slightly projects beyond the disk 28 and the cam portion of the disk 85.

When the disk 28 has been rotated'by-the film being fed so far that its notch 38 is near the nose 32 and into the position shown in Fig. 12 its notch 38 i covered by the disk I28. The disk I28 is engaged and arrested by the nose 32, because it slightly projects beyond the circumference of the disk 28. The disk 28 is further rotated, and the notch 38 is uncovered so that the nose 32 engages the same (Fig. 13). When the exposure is made the lever 3I is retracted from the notch by the finger II! of the slide III so far that it releases the disk I28, which is turned by its spring I 28 in clockwise direction, and into the initial position in'which it covers the notch 38. When the shutter releasing mechanism is released the lever 3I is turned by the spring 34 into engagement with the circumference of the disk 28. But it can not engage the notch 38, because it is arrested by the disk I 28. Therefore the film can be further advanced for winding the exposed film on its spool and bringing the next film section into exposure position.

As long as the cam portion 88 of the disk 88 cooperates with the notch 38 of the disk 28 the lever 3| can not engage the notch 38. But whenever the disk I28 gets into position for engagement by the nose 32 it is arrested while the disk 28 continue its rotary movement. But the relative movement of the disks 28 and I28 is limited by the slot I22 and the pin I23. In order to prevent locking of the disk 28 by the engagement of the disk I28 with the nose 32 the slot I22 is disposed at an angle such that the disk I28 is moved towards the pivot bolt 28 and with its outer portion away from the nose 32, so that it is released from the said nose and permits fur- I claim:

A roll film camera, comprising film feeding mechanism, mechanism controlling the length of the film being fed, said controlling mechanism including means adapted to interrupt the film feeding operation, a member operating said controlling mechanism and movable proportionally to the film being fed, two selectively operative transmission gears of different gear ratios intermediate said member and said interrupting means and severally adapted to throw said interrupt'ing means into operation for making large size and small size exposures. means for bringing said transmission gears alternately into power-transmitting connection between said operating member for said controlling mechanism and said interrupting means, means operative when the said transmission is changed from one gear to the other, for compensating for the irregularity in the position of the exposed film section resulting from the previous film feeding operation, said camera having a base board,.shutter mechanism carried by the base board, said shutter mechanism having a release member for actuating the shutter mechanism, and means for operating said shutter release member and for moving said interrupting means out of interrupting position on actuation of the shutter release member, said last named actuating means being locked in inoperative position when the interrupting means are in an inoperative position wherein the film feeding operation may be carried out and said last named actuatin means comprising cam means slidable transversely of the base board and positioned towards one side of the base board when inoperative, lever means connected to said cam means and pivoted to said base board for operating said shutter release member on the movement of said cam means from its inoperative position, means for moving said cam means, a shaft rotatably mounted on said base board to extend transversely thereof, an arm fixed on said shaft and rocked by said interrupting means when the interrupting means are moved to a position to interrupt the film feeding operation, a second arm fixed on said shaft, said second arm being positioned in the path of said cam means when the cam means and the interrupting means are in inoperative position whereby to lock the cam means against movement to a position to actuate said shutter release member, and resilient means urging said first named arm into contact with the interrupting means and the second arm into the path of said cam means, said interrupting means when moved to operative position to interrupt the film feeding operation turning said first named arm and rotating said shaft to turn said second named arm to a position wherein the second named arm clears said cam means to permit movement of the cam means, and said cam means on its movemeht from its inoperative position near one side of the base board towards the other side of the base board and during its return to inoperative position contacting the second named arm and during a part of such movement turning said second named arm to rotate said shaft and the first named arm in a direction to move the interrupting means from its operative to its inoperative position wherein film may be fed and said cam means also during its movement actuating said lever means to operate the shutter release member, said resilient means returning said second arm to a position in the path of said cam means when the cam means is returned to inoperative position after having moved the interrupting means into inoperative position and actuated the shutter release member.

WEHEIM BAUMGARTNER. 

